The Correction Line
2 Timothy 3:16
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
This past week we drove home from Wyoming to home in Michigan. We were on a small highway between Lagrange Wyoming and Scott's Bluff, Nebraska. The highway is straight as an arrow for many miles, but when we came to the Stateline made a 90° left turn, heading north for about a quarter mile then it took a 90° turn back to the right... then went straight east for many miles again.
I explained to Linda that is was a correction line. You see, our world isn't square. Or more precisely, it isn't a cube. It's a sphere. If you lay out orderly meridian lines (longitude) lines, beginning at a specific latitude and head north, eventually all your northbound lines will converge toward the North Pole. Then your nice square plots will become ever-narrowing trapezoids, until they taper away to a triangle and then to nothing. Thus the need for correction lines, if those lines aren't always being checked eventually the whole world is out of line.
Our lives can run similarly. We can be running straight and true for a ways, but if we aren't checking ourselves or more importantly having others checking us, before long we are off the true path that God has for us.
There are many ways that we can get off track in life... and many ways to protect against it. A week or two ago I wrote about what keeps an arrow flying true and what three things keep us on target... those were the Holy Spirit, God's Word and strong Christian friends.
The same is true for correction in our lives. Self inspection is very important, but just as important are those around us. Surrounding ourselves with those that love us deeply a d care about our walk with God is a necessity in life. Give them permission to be a correction line in your life.
James 5:16
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
Remain ready to use a correction line in life
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